His mother was only 18 when he was born: Who is Ethan Hawke?
The young actor, who started acting school at Carnegie-Mellon, chose cinema with Peter Weir's movie "Dead Poets Society" and dropped out of school.
Ethan Hawke is an American actor, director, and screenwriter born on November 6, 1970, in Austin, Texas, USA, and his full name is Ethan Green Hawke. Born while his mother and father were students at the University of Texas, Hawke's parents separated when he was 5 years old.
Hun studied at the School of Princeton and Carnegie-Mellon University. Ethan Hawke started his film career by starring in the movie Explorers in 1985.
Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an American actor, author and film director. He made his film debut in Explorers (1985), before making a breakthrough performance in Dead Poets Society (1989). Hawke starred alongside Julie Delpy in Richard Linklater's Before trilogy from 1995 to 2013. Hawke received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Training Day (2001) and Boyhood (2014) and two for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013). Other notable roles include in Reality Bites (1994), Gattaca (1997), Great Expectations (1998), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), Maggie's Plan (2015), First Reformed (2017), The Black Phone (2021) and The Northman (2022).
In 1989, he starred in the movie Dead Poets Society with Robin Williams and gained fame. He played the role of Jesse Wallace in the movie Before Sunrise in 1995, and repeated the same role in the movies Before Sunset in 2004 and Before Midnight in 2013. He also contributed to the scripts of these films and received four Oscar nominations.
Ethan Hawke has also appeared in films such as First Day in 2001, Before the Devil Hears You in 2007, Sinister in 2012, The Purge in 2013, Childhood in 2014, and No Tomorrow, Blaze in 2018. He recently appeared in Tesla (2020), Crime City (2020), Northman (2022), Raymond & Ray (2022), and Knives Out: A Mystery Adventure (2022).
His novel, 'The Hottest State,' was published in 1996.
Marriages:
1st wife: He married movie actress Uma Thurman on May 1, 1998. They divorced on July 20, 2004. He has two children named Maya Ray (b. 1998) and Levon Roan (b. 2002).
2nd wife: He married Ryan Shawhughes on June 18, 2008. He has two children named Clementine Jane Hawke (b.2008) and Indiana Hawke (b.2011).